Something Good

So great to be partnering with Wanderlustto share this list with a larger audience.

1. Adele’s latest album, 25. I’ve been listening to it nonstop since it was released. And this prank she pulled on a group of Adele impersonators is so sweet.

2. Wisdom from Susan Piver, “Love is the least safe thing there is. It’s fierce. You can’t domesticate it. It’s wild. When you find it you should rejoice. When you lose it you should grieve.”

3. 31 Days of Gifts You So Deserve from Be More With Less, “is like an advent calendar in your inbox designed to deliver the gifts you so deserve. The gifts are meaningful, some are magical, and all of them remind you to fully embrace the simplicity and meaning of the holidays with purpose and intention.” Added bonus? Pay what you want! This would make a great gift, for yourself or someone else.

9. Finding Your Way Back to the Practices that Serve Your Soul, Willo O’Brien on Medium. This, in particular, is brilliant, “Fully allowing and feeling the emotions. Letting them be and letting them come through. Listening to what they have to say, giving them love, compassion, and space. This is the ultimate practice at the heart of it all.”

15. The *new* Black Friday hosted by the amazing Sherry Richert Belul. “This Black Friday, go with the new black: Spend at least part of the day making a Love List as a holiday gift for someone you love.”

19. READY ♥ SET ♥ REFLECT an online retreat being offered by the amazing Susie Stonefield Miller. This is for “anyone who is yearning to take some time to reflect on the past year, to let it inform this next year, to choose a word for the year and to make a gorgeous deck of inspiration cards,” and will include “short guided meditations with art journaling prompts, video tutorials, thoughtful worksheets, and community connection.” Good stuff.

21. Wisdom from Brave Girls Club, “…each minute we spend lending ourselves, our time or talents or energy or thoughts to something that we really want little or nothing to do with is time is stolen from the things that really do matter to us. Each minute spent with the parts of our life that we want to be free from is a minute that we are not at peace….a minute that is spent feeling miserable instead of joyful.”

33. 48, written by Christine Mason Miller on our shared birthday, in which she says,

For now, while I’m able, I’m going to keep creating, feeling, living, crying, laughing, breathing deep breaths and being of service in whatever way I can. I will continue opening up my home to those I love. I will keep on trying to create the best I can create, whatever that means.

Today, I am turning 48 years old. Today, I am in awe of everything my first 47 years have given me. Today, I’m here to do one thing: LIVE.

34. Company is Coming. This is funny because it’s true. Anyone who is hosting Thanksgiving this year understands how it feels, the particular way you can lose your mind getting the house ready when you have people coming over.

37. This quote from Arundhati Roy’s War Talk, which seems especially timely.

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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4 thoughts on “Something Good”

Thank you so much for including *The New Black* Friday event on your awesome list. It is such an honor to be alongside so many people whose work I admire + respect. I so appreciate your observation on FB that this list you create is actually a Love List, too!!!! ❤

Hi Jill, Just have to say (again!) how grateful I am for your blog – it is inspiring beyond words, and motivating me to give more love to myself, and pursue the creative projects I have fumbled in and out of. There are similarities with our interests and contacts – but I have been so excited to learn of new people and projects and retreats through you. I signed up for the ‘Edible Memories’ retreat – I’m really looking forward to that, and I’ve been checking out Rachel Cole’s website. I have looked for a person like her for many years, but always felt like I should be able to teach myself these things. I am a teacher, for cryin out loud, I help other people with their path, and yet….

So, thankful for the impact your writing has made in my life. Hope we meet in person some day, and hope to see you on Oovoo with Laurie in January. Happy holidays! cynthia ps please forgive any typos- I am trying to type while lying down with a cat snoring on my forearms

I’m so glad! Rachel is amazing, such a compassionate and fiercely wise guide. She has quite literally changed my life, or rather helped me to change it. I love what you said about being a teacher, but the truth is most of the life coaches I know work with their own coaches, so it’s not that as a teacher we need no support, but rather we are smarter about knowing where and when we need it. I’m signed up for the Friday morning class with Laurie again, so I will see you there. Happy Holidays! ❤